We have a few questions about Tom Leppert’s inaugural speech, delivered yesterday at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center and reprinted in its entirety after the jump (courtesy the city’s Web site). But chief among them is this: Why did Leppert say, “A well-known philosopher once said, ‘What is a…
First, Roky Erickson announced a local show. Then, Jandek. Who’s next — the ghost of Townes Van Zandt? Lots of local music news floating around today — some good, some bad. First off, Austin-via-Denton folk-rockers Cartright are calling it quits. Anyone who’s seen their incendiary live shows around town in…
Unfair Park has learned that the U.S. government is going after the Downtown Dallas Improvement District and its parent nonprofit, Dallas CBD Enterprises, claiming they owe the Internal Revenue Service $48,072.48 plus $24,036.24 in penalties. That’s according to a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday, in which U.S. Attorney Richard Roper…
This is the view from Unfair Park HQ, facing downtown — specifically, Victory Plaza and the West End part of town, where a thick cloud of smoke’s filling the partly cloudy sky. By the time you read this we will no doubt know what’s on fire; but at the moment,…
If you’ve been sitting on your hands rather than getting yourself over to the Heritage Auction Galleries in Oak Lawn, you’ve already missed your chance to bid on General Ulysses S. Grant’s gold-silver-and-diamond encrusted sword, which sold yesterday for $1.6 million. And according to the Associated Press, Lt. Col. George…
Hmmm, whatever happened to ol’ whatzizname? Um, ya know, Ben Grieve? Seems the former Arlington Martin High School stud and 1998 American League Rookie of the Year is still swatting homers, but settling for winning the home run derby at charity events like this one on Saturday in Frisco. Hmmm,…
Dwaine Caraway will be named Your New Deputy Mayor Pro Tem in about 90 minutes, but you heard it here first. Jim Schutze just left the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, where Tom Leppert and his eight-piece band were inaugurified, and he sends back these “two amazing discoveries.” (Editor’s note:…
In a red dress with white polka dots, Kristy Kruger walked on stage at Uncle Calvin’s on Friday night looking like a spelling bee contestant from the late 1950s emerging from a time capsule, as if her favorite singer is Buddy Holly and her favorite drink is a root beer…
Did you know Dirk Nowitzki turned 29 last week — June 19, actually? And, thanks to The Ticket’s Bob Sturm (and everyone else), who discovered a very “lovely dirk” homage on the YouTubes, this is how we’ve been celebrating ever since. –Robert Wilonsky…
Imam Yusuf Kavakci is still collecting Interwebs friends two months after delivering a prayer on the Texas Senate floor. Remember back in April, when state Sen. Florence Shapiro invited Imam Yusuf Kavakci of the Dallas Central Mosque to throw out the opening pitch on the floor of the Texas Senate?…
Funny thing is, there have been times when Zac Crain has looked a little like Dimebag Darrell. The beard, mostly. At 9:30 this morning they’re installing a new mayor and the new city council at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, and until he was booted off the ballot in…
That Zac Crain is one busy dude — running for mayor (well…), editing a magazine, writing a book. Wait .. you didn’t know the last part? Yeah — it’s a bio of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott titled Black Tooth Grin: The High Life, Good Times, and Tragic End of…
A missing page in the Playbill for Spamalot, the Broadway tour currently playing at the Music Hall at Fair Park, has fueled a ferocious little fuss among the free magazine’s publisher, the Dallas Summer Musicals and Irving’s Lyric Stage. Lyric’s founder and artist director, Steven Jones, bought a full-page ad…
She fired her manager. She canceled her tour due to slow ticket sales. She waged a very public battle with one of the most powerful men in the music business. Her released-in-May single’s all but gone by June. Now she’s on about her battle with bulimia, which is a sure…
We’re all agreed that Glenn Beck, heard daily on KLIF-AM, is the opposite of “progressive,” right? Thanks to The Dallas Morning News’ Over the Top blog, I sucked down a Tio’s Tortas sandwich with my head buried in a just-issued 40-page study that says, among other things, Dallas radio audiences…
Today, hell officially freezes over. Is there a more scintillating event in sports than the National Hockey League Draft? OK, maybe hot-dog eating. Or Scrabble. Or lint-licking. Officially called The 2007 NHL Entry Draft, the waste of time tick, tick, ticks today and tomorrow from Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio…
Jesca Hoop, touring with the Spree beginning tomorrow night, won’t be anyone’s opening act for long. If you’re heading to the Polyphonic Spree show tomorrow night at the Granada, be sure to get there early — between 7:30 p.m. and 8 would be about right. Normally we skip opening acts,…
State District Judge Bill Mazur brought 50 volunteers into the CASA yesterday. The largest class of volunteers for Dallas CASA — almost 50 — was sworn in as officers of the court yesterday by state District Judge Bill Mazur of the 304th Juvenile District Court. In a state system of…
Maybe this morning you read about yesterday’s concert at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, during which the Dallas Symphony Orchestra performed music from video games like, oh, Space Invaders, Final Fantasy and Pong. And maybe you thought, like, that doesn’t even sound real. Well, yeah. It was. –Robert Wilonsky…
DCCCD Chancellor Wright Lassiter Jr. says Governor Rick Perry’s very, very wrong about last week’s line-item veto that will cost local community colleges $15.7 million. The Dallas County Community College District Web site is thick this week with missives from Chairman of the Board of Trustees Jerry Prater and Chancellor…
Maybe you can’t live at the Ritz, but you or someone you know might be able to work there. A few days back we mentioned the swanky residential digs over at the Ritz-Carlton — wishful thinking or somesuch. But if you can’t afford the $700,000-min list price condos in the…
Mayor Laura Miller — and her pal Councilman Leo Chaney, standing to her immediate right — attended her last groundbreaking today. Pastor Fredrick Eddington is third from the left. Mayor Laura Miller, Councilman Leo Chaney, my pastor — Elder Fredrick Eddington, Sr. — and several other city and neighborhood dignitaries…
